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The North Star Playbook

Amplitude Freemium Intermediate

This playbook helps you name the single metric that represents the value your product delivers, plus the few inputs that move it. Choosing it is a strategy exercise, which forces you to decide what learning actually matters. Use it to pick the come-back or aha moment worth measuring.

  • Pick one metric that captures real user value
  • Identify a few inputs that drive that metric
  • The choice is strategic, not just measurement

It answers 3 questions

  1. How do I know when something we shipped is actually working versus just launched?
  2. How do I set up analytics and feedback in my MVP so I actually learn something, without over-engineering tracking?
  3. How do I make a data-heavy dashboard readable instead of an overwhelming wall of numbers?

Read with it

  1. 200+ candid conversations with Indian founders and investors on how they actually found their idea, spotted a trend, and... Apple Podcasts Podcast · podcast series (45-90 min episodes) The Neon Show (formerly 100x Entrepreneur) Siddhartha Ahluwalia
  2. Run by the managing partners of Prime Venture Partners (Sanjay Swamy, Amit Somani, Shripati Acharya and others), this is a... Prime Venture Partners Podcast Prime Venture Partners Podcast Prime Venture Partners
  3. The book behind the "One Metric That Matters" discipline, which is exactly the mindset you need to judge whether a ship worked... O'Reilly / Lean Series Book · 440 pages Lean Analytics: Use Data to Build a Better Startup Faster Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz
  4. Turns the vague feeling of product-market fit into a number you can move. Ask users how they would feel if they could no longer... First Round Review Article · ~20 min read How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product/Market Fit Rahul Vohra
  5. The free tool for running the how-would-you-feel-without-this survey that underpins the Superhuman method, giving you a... Sean Ellis and GoPractice Tool · Free tool Product/Market Fit Survey Sean Ellis
  6. An all in one, generously free product analytics tool that early teams can set up in minutes, with events, funnels, session... PostHog Tool PostHog Product Analytics PostHog
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